If you were watching last night's episode of
The Vampire Diaries (believe us, we were not), you probably saw something a little... strange. Yes, with the opening credits still running, two women (sorry, we have never seen a frame of this show so we don't know who these broads are) sitting in front of a laptop converse about a runaway teen named Isabelle Peterson or something like that. Unsure of whether or not this suspicious Peterson character was using a fake name or not, the ladies needed... well, they needed a tool that would allow them to search the vast and beautiful world wide web of information. "But where'd she get Peterson? Classmate? Best friend?" the blond sitting at the terminal wonders. "So..." she says, turning to the computer, "... I Binged it." Wait, what? You Binged it? Hmm... we've never heard that one before, though we have to say in this case, it seems like
Bing really came through for the ladies, nailing down the information they were looking for with ease. It's quite an extended piece of advertising, really. But seriously... Binged? Guess it'll have to do. Video is after the break.
[Thanks, Eva]
posted March 26th 2010 8:02PM
@NoToApple It's not about doing product placement. If they just said, "I searched it on Bing", it wouldn't be nearly as bad. "I binged it". Is that a joke? Who was the genius behind that, and oh, I do wonder where they got their inspiration? /s
@The Madman ... that was weird :S
I wouldn't mind 'Binging' a few of the chicks in Vampire Diaries. Well, I assume I wouldn't mind. I've seen as many frames of this show as Engadget...
what the hell is the vampire diaries and what the hell is bing?
is that a new word for fail? screwup? three-strikes-you're out?
@obobo No, but you indeed do Fail. Bing is a search engine. It is what was previously known as MSN search. Thanks to their marketing department, anyone who turns on a TV or looks at a website knows what Bing is.
@jbellamy423 Whoosh! Omg, what was that? It seems to be the joke. Good thing it just missed you!
@jbellamy423 I don't know how the ads have been received stateside but the UK ones are so very poor, they just (inaccurately) portray all other search engines as being data overload, and say "we're just better" without any informative advertising whatsoever. The ads get your attention but there is no intrigue in the product.
@jbellamy423 .. except everyone outside the US. I have never seen an ad for Bing either on TV or on the web. Only heard about through websites like this.
Sorry, I binged up...
yes indeed.. bing is the search engine I tried once and never went back to again. Just like msn search and just like live.com search... GONG!!!!!!
Dont you lose your copyright when you start using it as a verb?
@obobo I used it more than once, I actually used it as my primary search engine for a couple of weeks, but it just never really seemed to meet needs that I had. It was like Microsoft gave me solutions for problems I didn't have.
@obobo
If you have problems getting BING into your lexicon watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEHTd_3vD0
BING!, it's stuck in my head now.
@Chris Dunning It Is also a newer search engine. I would say in about a year it will be as good as google.
@shogunmaster
Don't be so bing-headed.
@p0p0
I'll belive in Bing when I believe in vampires...
@Sodapop
Assuming Google doesn't improve in the meantime.
@shogunmaster Since Bing already sounds like a verb, I rather use "I BANGED It"
"remember than chick I met in the club and forgot her number? I banged her and now I have her info!"
It's a great idea, Microsoft...
@Extinction It's trademark, not copyright, and that's only one of steps of one possible way to lose legal protection for it (as in the ability to sue and win when a different company tries using your trademark).
@shogunmaster haha yes, well its good to see bing shifting their PR to sexy chicks than that deadlast commercial they had on youtube before. http://bit.ly/bing-jingle-view
@p0p0
I'm not sure why this comes as such a surprise. The first thing I thought of when MS revealed the name of Bing was that they obviously chose a name that could be easily verb-ized, to compete with "googled it". And anyway, even though I don't think I will ever use Bing over Google, to Binging something sounds alot less child molesty than to googling something.
@Extinction as mentioned it's a trademark, but more importantly, since "binging" refers specifically to doing a search using the Bing search engine, as opposed to performing a search on the internet with no specific search engine, it would seem unlikely that using "to bing" would cause issues for the Bing trademark. also probably because i've already heard so many people use "to google" as a generic search term...
it still could though.
@Ridgecity annnnnd it's Ridgecity for the win!!
@shogunmaster MSFT continues to enter a space and copy the leaders.
Full of fail.
@The Madman Ohh man what a bing
@The Madman
Looks like the writer of this post is really trying to give us the impression that she never watches this show.... Just the sheer amount of "oooh I have NEVER watched this, blah blah blah whoever blah blah..." just tells us that she is an avid fangirl vampire lover and shes to embarrassed to show it.
reminds me of this;
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1915736
This will NEVER enter the common vernacular like "Just Google it!" has.
Points for trying though Microsoft.... /S
@SolidSnake I perfer the term GMF! GOOGLE MOTHA FU@#ER
@Mattd00d *prefer
@SolidSnake
yeah just wait until youre doing bing searches on your bada powered phone.
bada bing .. .
@SolidSnake
IMO it will. People are still going to use it, discuss about it and it will get better. Since there is already a precedence to say "google something" instead of "look it up on Google", "binging something" will come just as naturally. And it does have a sort of ring to it. Yahoo! on the other hand... maybe we are too used to saying it the other way... or because it does more than search...
Just "Binged" Binged, sent me to a site on how to optimise my Google search.
@d0mth0ma5 half the search results on the first page are about bingeing in various ways, "Binged" "Googled" and got 10 results about Google.
@d0mth0ma5
i "binged" "binged" and got a page full of results for binge drinking
Related searches
* Binge Definition
* Binge Eating
* Anorexia
* Purge
* Binge Drinking
* Binge Band
* February 2
* MySpace Bling
@d0mth0ma5
I googled "Binged" and here's what I got!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/binged
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
@b3nj4m1n
I also got results about binge drinking, maybe the results are personalized.
@praveen the definition "an orgy of shopping" fits with Microsoft way of business. That explains why the Bing name...
@d0mth0ma5
this is what happened to me when I binged "bing"..
http://www.customink.com/designs/bingshirt/16570396-3621578/hotlink?cm_mmc=hotlink-_-1-_-Body_img-_-designfront
I use bign 80% everyday. Tired of the loopholes malware / trojan writers are using to infect machines. I even tell some of users in my office to use it.
Competition is good.
@xirsteon bing*
@xirsteon Uck! Don't bing yourself on here! That's disgusting! :/
@xirsteon what exactly do you tell people in your office? To bing?
Binged. Not the worst I've heard, but it makes me think of other possibilities. I Yahoo'd it. I Asked it.
Oh well, as long as everyone's happy.
Nah, I'll just stick with Binging Megan Fox because I'll never have the chance to Bang her.
I think "Bingled" would be better.
@laurence
Sing>Sung
Fling>Flung
Cling>Clung
Bing>Bung
I think something like "... and I searched for it and, Bing! There it was" might work better.